topic Re: Text chat is absolutely required. in General Discussionhttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408906#M20107
<P>&nbsp;</P><P>LOL WHAT!!!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>There's no text chat in game...but bioware made starwars the old republic (RIP) they had a text chat box....they have the technology they know how to make it work....they know most people are on PC (PC Master Race!)&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Did EA just not give Bioware enough time to make a great game or is Bioware dead?&nbsp; I really want to know more!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>LOL seriously if there's no chat in this game I forsee a nose dive...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Also nobody uses Voip because nobody wants to actually voice chat with a random or child (REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!)</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>lol EA: GIVE US YOUR WALLET!</P>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 01:40:00 GMTBelgerath792019-02-02T01:40:00ZText chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408742#M20059
<P>Anthem is in dire need of text chat for coordination. Currently it seems everyone plays with VOIP disabled, making it absolutely impossible to communicate beyond vague emotes.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>It is currently impossible to tell your squad where you are, where an important objective is, or that something is bugged. I have been in multiple Tyrant Mine, and free play missions where people did not know what do to with the relics, and would fly around until they got bored and left, leaving us missing a relic and halting progress.</P>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:36:58 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408742#M20059Aedensin2019-02-02T00:36:58ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408839#M20088
<P>They're trying to figure out what is "feasible" which I don't really buy. Given that the game is just about to launch, it's clear they had no intent to add it until people started complaining. And then people started quoting a new law being enforced that is only being half enforced (can't have text chat without a text to voice option) yet there's no voice to text option for those that are deaf. So I also don't buy that the law is the issue. It just seems to me that they didn't want to spend time or money adding a system that would only be primarily used by PC players, you can look at the Ui and controls and see that the game was ported over from consoles instead of developed independently like some studios do.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So yes, we need text chat, it's going to be a clusterfrak otherwise.&nbsp;</P>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 01:18:18 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408839#M20088Arsenic_Touch2019-02-02T01:18:18ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408863#M20093
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><LI-USER uid="13221839"></LI-USER>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>They're trying to figure out what is "feasible" which I don't really buy. Given that the game is just about to launch, it's clear they had no intent to add it until people started complaining. And then people started quoting a new law being enforced that is only being half enforced (can't have text chat without a text to voice option) yet there's no voice to text option for those that are deaf. So I also don't buy that the law is the issue. It just seems to me that they didn't want to spend time or money adding a system that would only be primarily used by PC players, you can look at the Ui and controls and see that the game was ported over from consoles instead of developed independently like some studios do.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So yes, we need text chat, it's going to be a clusterfrak otherwise.&nbsp;</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>This.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Not to mention, there are other games coming out that have text and voice chat without these apparently "legal" issues.</P>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 01:30:57 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408863#M20093Solkard2019-02-02T01:30:57ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408906#M20107
<P>&nbsp;</P><P>LOL WHAT!!!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>There's no text chat in game...but bioware made starwars the old republic (RIP) they had a text chat box....they have the technology they know how to make it work....they know most people are on PC (PC Master Race!)&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Did EA just not give Bioware enough time to make a great game or is Bioware dead?&nbsp; I really want to know more!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>LOL seriously if there's no chat in this game I forsee a nose dive...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Also nobody uses Voip because nobody wants to actually voice chat with a random or child (REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!)</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>lol EA: GIVE US YOUR WALLET!</P>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 01:40:00 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7408906#M20107Belgerath792019-02-02T01:40:00ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7409050#M20142
To everyone wrongly blaming EA/Bioware for not having text chat in anthem, please do some research before screaming bloody murder.<BR /><BR />"Brenon Holmes explains the implementation is complicated by the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), which mandates text-to-speech functionality in certain games released after 12/31/18."<BR /><BR />"The FCC had extended its video game industry waiver for another year back in December, which means games released past December 31, 2018 will have to adhere to these guidelines. While the task of turning all text in-game to speech would be monumental, it’s disappointing a publisher as big as EA isn’t able to commit to having these features."Sat, 02 Feb 2019 02:42:53 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7409050#M20142PurpleHairMcgoo2019-02-02T02:42:53ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7409080#M20155
I looked up that act act at <A href="https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-cvaa" target="_blank">https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-cvaa</A><BR /><BR />I don’t see why we can’t have text chat based off it though, we need text to speech Incase a blind person is playing the game?Sat, 02 Feb 2019 02:52:49 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7409080#M20155Ratsle2019-02-02T02:52:49ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7409084#M20157
<LI-USER uid="25571507" login="Ratsle"></LI-USER><BR />It's one of the laws that started with good intentions but ended with a bad aftertaste.Sat, 02 Feb 2019 02:55:18 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7409084#M20157PurpleHairMcgoo2019-02-02T02:55:18ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526230#M32785
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><LI-USER uid="23849867"></LI-USER>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><LI-USER uid="25571507"></LI-USER><BR />It's one of the laws that started with good intentions but ended with a bad aftertaste.<HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>CVAA does not require removal of text chat. There are plenty of games launching that are meeting CVAA requirements.</P>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:48:12 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526230#M32785kjeevah2019-02-19T23:48:12ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526242#M32788
<P>I'm perfectly happy without text chat. Could use a ping system though.</P>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:51:21 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526242#M32788Sneaky_Minotaur2019-02-19T23:51:21ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526266#M32790
<P>I counter with "Text chat is absolutely not required", even if it was implemented there is no guarantee it would be paid attention to after 5 mins of the inevitable "yo mamma" garbage and the bullying by one or two in a run to get players to do it their way. I personally have played a bunch of online games with no text chat and no problems.</P>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:57:02 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526266#M32790Haruchai012019-02-19T23:57:02ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526281#M32793
<P>&gt; required</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>[Fezzik]people keep using this word. I don’t think it means what they think it means.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>hopefully it gets added. Though I think a ping system would be more useful in many ways.</P>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:59:06 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526281#M32793Banfilidh2019-02-19T23:59:06ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526361#M32805
I would also like a text chat to get some hints from better players on how to improve or ask for advice. Sure, some would use it to throw insults around, but who cares.Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:19:02 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526361#M32805Dufrense2019-02-20T00:19:02ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526370#M32808
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><LI-USER uid="25753553"></LI-USER>&nbsp;wrote:<BR />I would also like a text chat to get some hints from better players on how to improve or ask for advice. Sure, some would use it to throw insults around, but who cares.<HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I daresay the players being insulted obviously, and the players doing the insulting or they wouldn't bother, you can get the info you need via the forums, so I retort "who cares"?</P>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:22:29 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526370#M32808Haruchai012019-02-20T00:22:29ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526384#M32810
<P>I have been playing Destiny for years with no text chat.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have completed Strikes, Iron Banner, Prison Of Elders, Court Of Oryx, Quest Missions and Hard Mode Raids without any form of communication what so ever.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Why exactly is text chat so absolutely necessary?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So the people that NO ONE wants to listen to can spam messages instead of simply playing the game and having fun.......</P>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:25:16 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526384#M32810VonVodan2019-02-20T00:25:16ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526385#M32811
<P>Most of the time text chat is used to troll/insult other players. Or tell them how bad they are at the game and should go kill themselves.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Couldn't care less about text chat.</P>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:25:17 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526385#M32811Loki_Deezie2019-02-20T00:25:17ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526744#M32872
<P>Id rather see a Ping/Waypoint system put in the Open Game World. Things move too fast to type.</P><P>Chat should be reserved for the Launch bay</P>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 02:02:13 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526744#M32872DidgeriDudeLV2019-02-20T02:02:13ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526871#M32893
<P>I can agree that the game should have voice as well as text chat.&nbsp; This is all a mess thanks to.. guess who?&nbsp; The meme... "Thanks Obama!"&nbsp;&nbsp; Its a law passed with good intentions, but of course was done very poorly..&nbsp;&nbsp; Personally I turn off all forms of out side communications.. dont want to hear randoms rambling about crap or blaring there music, and if able I disable text to avoid all the rude and crude jokes or nonesense.&nbsp;&nbsp; But for those who do want it, it should be made available.&nbsp;</P>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 02:33:20 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526871#M32893IFoxxian2019-02-20T02:33:20ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526994#M32926
<P>Unless they can fix their audio issues a text chat option has to be introduced.</P>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 03:14:08 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7526994#M32926Githil2019-02-20T03:14:08ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544728#M35430
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><LI-USER uid="25588333"></LI-USER>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>Most of the time text chat is used to troll/insult other players. Or tell them how bad they are at the game and should go kill themselves.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Couldn't care less about text chat.</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Much like voice chat?</P>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:10:20 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544728#M35430kjeevah2019-02-22T11:10:20ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544739#M35432
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><LI-USER uid="25519720"></LI-USER>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>I can agree that the game should have voice as well as text chat.&nbsp; This is all a mess thanks to.. guess who?&nbsp; The meme... "Thanks Obama!"&nbsp; &nbsp;</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Presidents don't make laws. ADA was signed in though broad bipartisan support in 1990, under the Bush administration. CVAA is an update to a couple of areas of ADA, and was signed in again through broad bipartisan support under the Obama administration. It isn't a partisan political issue.</P>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:12:00 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544739#M35432kjeevah2019-02-22T11:12:00ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544830#M35439
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><LI-USER uid="25605711"></LI-USER>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>&gt; required</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>[Fezzik]people keep using this word. I don’t think it means what they think it means.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>hopefully it gets added. Though I think a ping system would be more useful in many ways.</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>They think they are adding weight to their argument when in reality they are undermining it. The same with the use of "absolutely". But you are probably right and they saw someone else use it and they thought it looked cool so decided to throw it in without knowing where it would be applicable.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I personally don't think text chat is needed at all.</P>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:32:26 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544830#M35439Haruchai012019-02-22T11:32:26ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544849#M35441
<P>I just wasted an hour in Tyrant mine with 3 other people who literally did not know to shoot the big electric balls of death when you're supposed to stand on the platform, they just keep flipping around and getting electrocuted then exploded by bugs. I made it a point to let all 3 of them stay dead so they watched me as I sat there hovering and shooting the electric balls, but soon as I revived them they just flipped around and repeated over and over</P>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:33:46 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544849#M35441nitewyrd2019-02-22T11:33:46ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544873#M35443
<P><LI-USER uid="13221839"></LI-USER>&nbsp; Division 2 has text chat, so I highly doubt Anthem has no chat function over the new USA law.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Seeing some reviews and people comments I rather think Anthem was made to become a singleplayer game but being forced by EA to become a Multiplayer. And now they have to think of a way to implend a text chat into their engine.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>These types of game should have text chat or at least other ways to communicate like highlight priority and second targets or an Apex system.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:37:49 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544873#M35443ScarRafiki2019-02-22T11:37:49ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544900#M35446
<LI-USER uid="23849867" login="PurpleHairMcgoo"></LI-USER> nonsense, Division 2 has a text chat function and will be released in few weeks.<BR /><BR />Why would there be a text to speech function in the first place? A deaf person still can't hear it, and a blind person can't play.<BR /><BR />Someone without limbs can't play the game at all, so yea.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:43:15 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7544900#M35446ScarRafiki2019-02-22T11:43:15ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7545483#M35512
One good way around the "Yo mamma" problem would be to have some canned responses and you have to pick one. "Thanks!", "Over here!", "Grab the shiny balls!" etc. I would definitely like a formal way to say thank you to people who rez me or otherwise save my *.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:24:31 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7545483#M35512ms452019-02-22T13:24:31ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7561199#M37829
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><LI-USER uid="25024824"></LI-USER>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><LI-USER uid="23849867"></LI-USER>nonsense, Division 2 has a text chat function and will be released in few weeks.<BR /><BR />Why would there be a text to speech function in the first place? A deaf person still can't hear it, and a blind person can't play.<BR /><BR />Someone without limbs can't play the game at all, so yea.<HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Blind people can indeed play (especially considering that "blind" means 20/200 vision or less, not zero vision), and someone without limbs can play too. I can explain how if you're interested, or you could take my word for it or google it.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>And the legislation also covers people who are deaf; specifically voice chat is required to have a mode that works for people who can't hear.</P>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 04:01:02 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7561199#M37829kjeevah2019-02-24T04:01:02ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7561253#M37846
<P>yes please. I have a mic but not everyone does, voice chat shouldn't be mandatory in a pc game.</P>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 04:16:48 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7561253#M37846TheGr4yM4n2019-02-24T04:16:48ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7561886#M37957
<P>This at the veryyyyyy least. It's pretty frustrating not being able to ping or speak to your freeplay group at all without VOIP.</P>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 06:52:06 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7561886#M37957DadKage2019-02-24T06:52:06ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7597703#M44559
<P>in game text chat is critical to team coordination and accessibility. Even when grouping with my friends using the origin chat if very awkward and difficult and cuts into the game experience. I hope they have this planned for enhancement backlog.. please!!!</P>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:49:32 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7597703#M44559Wolfey032019-03-01T00:49:32ZRe: Text chat is absolutely required.https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7597747#M44567
<P>Would really love to have text chat finally on PC.</P>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:58:20 GMThttps://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Text-chat-is-absolutely-required/m-p/7597747#M44567Anonymous2019-03-01T00:58:20Z